Cosmic Atlas is a scientific 2D and navigable 3D map of Solar System, stellar, and deep-sky catalog objects using real ephemeris and catalog data.
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Search sky objects
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search_sky_objects
Find named objects in the SkyChart catalog index: stars, planets, moons, spacecraft, small bodies, exoplanet systems, galaxies, quasars, X-ray sources, and deep-sky objects. Returns object keys, types, coordinates, and links. Use a returned key exactly as given in the other tools. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Search sky objects — Find named objects in the SkyChart catalog index: stars, planets, moons, spacecraft, small bodies, exoplanet systems, galaxies, quasars, X-ray sources, and deep-sky objects. Returns object keys, types, coordinates, and links. Use a returned key exactly as given in the other tools. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Get a sky object record — Get one public object record: names and aliases, type, astrometry, identifiers, scientific semantics, source catalog, upstream record links, and the stable SkyChart object page. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
List catalogs and display layers — List the catalogs and ephemerides in the atlas, with the upstream source, the coverage, and the selection caveat of each one, and the display-layer identifiers that create_sky_view_link accepts. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Create an atlas view link — Build a validated, shareable link to the 2D atlas, centered on a named object or on map-plane coordinates, at a given zoom, epoch, and set of visible layers. Give object_key, or both center_x_au and center_y_au. The coordinates are heliocentric ecliptic astronomical units, not right ascension and declination. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Create a sky-from-an-object link — Build a shareable link to the Sky view: the geometric sky as seen from a planet, moon, spacecraft, star, or other object with a three-dimensional atlas position. Give look_at_key to aim the view at another object (for example Earth seen from Mars), or give yaw_deg and pitch_deg. Returns the link and a preview image address. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Get Solar System positions
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Cosmic Atlas is a scientific 2D and navigable 3D map of Solar System, stellar, and deep-sky catalog objects using real ephemeris and catalog data.
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Measure the separation of two objects — Measure the straight-line distance between two atlas objects in AU, kilometers, light-years, and parsecs, with the light-travel time. Works across scales: planets, spacecraft, stars, and galaxies with a three-dimensional atlas position. Solar System bodies use the ephemeris at the given time. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
Get visibility from a place on Earth — Estimate where an object is in the sky now from a place on Earth: altitude, azimuth, and the rise, transit, and set times in the next 24 hours. Modeled for the Sun, the Moon, the planets and major moons, Hipparcos bright stars, exoplanet host systems, and Messier objects. Geometric five-minute sampling without refraction, daylight, or weather. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
List current sky events — List recent and upcoming events that the atlas tracks, such as near-Earth object close approaches from JPL CNEOS and newly confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, with their source links. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
List guided tours — List the guided tours of the atlas, with the title, the text, and the link of each step. Use it to recommend a narrated journey through the atlas. For atlas orientation, source discovery, and shareable links; not an authoritative archive, a bulk data service, or an observing planner.
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